Man dies after Saturday shooting in Anchorage

Kortez Brown, 33, died after a shooting in East Anchorage on Saturday night, according to Anchorage police.

Responding to a call at 9:53 p.m., police said in a statement Sunday that they found a man, later identified as Brown, with a gunshot wound on the 8000 block of 36th Avenue, just off the Muldoon-Tudor curve near the Chugach Foothills neighborhood.

He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries and did not survive, according to a follow-up statement released Sunday afternoon.

Police did not provide any information about the circumstances of the shooting or whether the man was inside or outside a home or vehicle.

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Julia O'Malley is a veteran Alaska journalist who is currently a writer and editor at the ADN. She was columnist and reporter at the ADN for many years and was Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She received a 2018 James Beard Foundation food writing award.